The film “A Beautiful Mind” is the first to deal with a profound social issue that touches everyone but that few people understand--a Nash equilibrium. The film also focuses on the mental illness of ...

Nash equilibria represent a cornerstone in game theory, defining strategy profiles wherein no player can benefit by unilaterally deviating. This concept underpins a myriad of applications, ranging ...

The concept of Nash equilibrium has long served as a cornerstone in game theory, characterising a state where no player can benefit by changing their strategy unilaterally. Recent advancements have ...

Brian Fite is a 35-year-old professional poker player and coach. He has been playing poker full-time for more than 14 years and along the way has developed a deep understanding of the game and all ...

Five years ago, the first price-comparison Web sites were being hailed as heaven on earth for penny pinchers and the fast track to Hell for online merchants who failed to establish and protect a ...

What does it mean to behave rationally? This question sounds like a problem for philosophers. Yet mathematicians also have something to say about it. In the last few decades, game theory—the ...

I first learned my craft on Wall Street in the 1980s, a very different era, characterized by the bravado of Gordon Gekko’s “Greed is Good” speech. During that period, I was taught that all ...

His mind was beautiful, but troubled. His math was just beautiful. John Forbes Nash Jr., who died in a traffic accident on May 23, gained more fame than most mathematicians, though not only on account ...

When I was a Princeton undergraduate from 1995 to 1999, professor John Forbes Nash Jr., the subject of the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” was a shadow figure in a knit cap who haunted the Fine Hall math ...